Problem with System.nanoTime()

Hello i am following a tutorial and im making a timer following this. However i seem to have a problem with System.nanoTime. It seems that it only updates its value every microsecond instead of nanosecond. Whenever i call the System.nanoTime() function i get a value that ends with 3 zeros.

For example:
"1371568052578915000, 1371568052578916000".

This is what i get everytime. I have not done anything to the variable that stores it before i print it out, and printing out System.nanoTime() directly does not change the problem.

Here is the code part of the code that i am having problems with. It is not complete yet but i can not imagine anyway that could be relevant to my problem. The "return;" is just temporary.

Re: Problem with System.nanoTime()

From the API for System.nanoTime():

Returns the current value of the running Java Virtual Machine's high-resolution time source, in nanoseconds.

This method can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related to any other notion of system or wall-clock time. The value returned represents nanoseconds since some fixed but arbitrary origin time (perhaps in the future, so values may be negative). The same origin is used by all invocations of this method in an instance of a Java virtual machine; other virtual machine instances are likely to use a different origin.

This method provides nanosecond precision, but not necessarily nanosecond resolution (that is, how frequently the value changes) - no guarantees are made except that the resolution is at least as good as that of currentTimeMillis().

Differences in successive calls that span greater than approximately 292 years (263 nanoseconds) will not correctly compute elapsed time due to numerical overflow.

The values returned by this method become meaningful only when the difference between two such values, obtained within the same instance of a Java virtual machine, is computed.